How to Install Strategy Game 0 A.D. Alpha 18 in Ubuntu


Wildfire Games recently announced the eighteenth alpha version of its real-time strategy game 0 A.D. The code name is Rhododactylos.
The new release comes with some new features:
  • Nomad Game Mode: Players start with only some citizen soldiers and female citizens, and no civil center, and must build a base from scratch.
  • In-Game Technology Tree: Allows players to see which faction can research what technologies, when and for how many resources.
  • The default AI, Petra, now supports saved games.
  • Toggle groups of units between marching in formation and breaking formation.
  • New Seleucid buildings: The new buildings are the house, storehouse, farmstead, towers and temple. The Civic Center is a placeholder for now and will be updated before the Seleucids are finished.
seleucid_0ad
There are also some performance improvements and other changes under the hood, see the release note for more.

Install 0 A.D. Alpha 18 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Linux Mint 13/17 can running below commands to install or upgrade this game from its PPA.
Open terminal from Menu/Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
0 A.D. ppa
Then update system cache and install the game:
sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get install 0ad 0ad-data

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